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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not arguing against that. I understand the time constraints but, for example, it would have been normal for us to have four or five sessions of pre-legislative scrutiny on a big Bill. Some members will read the papers and others will not. If we have a really technical Bill, we might like to question some of the experts. My preference is to have two sessions. When the Land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Committee Work Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps between now and our next private session we could establish whether it is possible to have two meetings a week for a couple of the weeks after the recess. We can then fit all five of those categories in. I am with Senator Fitzpatrick. The issue of homelessness includes deaths, over-provision of services in Dublin and under-provision outside the county of Dublin. If we were able to...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Now that the dust has finally settled on the spin of yesterday's announcements, it is very clear to anybody looking at this objectively that the housing commitments in yesterday's announcements are underwhelming, unclear and wholly inadequate. The key test here is how much additional capital spending the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage secured above that which was already...

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This morning we read in the newspapers of yet another co-living application. It is a proposed 14-storey development - twice the height cap in that part of the city - with 506 co-living beds in Dublin city centre. According to An Bord Pleanála and the Dublin local authorities, there have been more than 36 co-living planning...

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Tut-tut.

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Respect has to be earned.

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am listening.

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Respect is earned.

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: He is almost an independent.

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: We had a very large number of Private Members' debates on housing over the past number of years but this is the first time in my memory where neither the senior Minister nor the Minister of State directly responsible for the area being debated were in the Chamber. The Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, demanded that we treat him with respect. I would suggest to the first-time Deputy...

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----of the other political parties that are in the Opposition. I want to thank the Minister of State who is here because at least he had the good grace to come and listen and to defend. I would say, and I made the same point to Deputy Duffy, that at some point the review will end and the Government will have to make a decision. That is the point at which all of us will have to make...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will adopt at the European Council the position of Irish MEPs and that of the European Parliament on the EU climate law, which sets an ambition of at least a 60% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030; if he will support the European Parliament’s position; and the implications that has on the Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 561. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that trauma orthopaedic clinics in Tallaght University Hospital remain closed due to Covid-19; and when these clinics will recommence [30939/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the presentation and replies. I wish to make a couple of introductory comments. As per normal, I have a long list of technical questions and if I do not get through them in five minutes then I hope to be allowed to ask a second round of questions or submit them in writing. It is important for the committee to understand that it is almost 20 years since the Water...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us not forget the good people of Fermanagh, from where the water originates before it gets to Limerick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be a mistake for us to associate the contents of this Bill with the proposed Shannon to Dublin pipeline, which is a project that many of us are critical and sceptical of partly because the purpose of this legislation is to try to properly manage our water supply everywhere. If we do not get this right, small farmers, small businesses and householders in rural and urban Ireland will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the refusals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that even if the EPA were to suggest that it was putting us in conflict with the terms of the water framework directive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the question on public participation in the licences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Attorney General happy with that and that we will not come into conflict with any of our legal obligations under the environmental impact assessment directive or the water framework directive?